In the second of our series of ‘in-person’ events organised to mark the 60th anniversary of Jürgen Habermas’s The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, we invite you to an open discussion of the relationship between the civic and intimate spheres of life. Each panellist will choose a short extract from Mary Wollstonecraft’s writings in order to focus discussion on specific themes, including: subjectivity, rights, labour, reason, passion, public and private, history, education, patriarchy and feminism.
All those with interests in this area are welcome; refreshments will be provided, but advance registration is essential. The event will take place in the Council Room at King’s College London.
Panellists:
Alan Coffee, King’s College London
- Co-editor ofThe Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft (Oxford, 2016)
Hannah Dawson, King’s College London
- Editor ofThe Penguin Book of Feminist Writing (Penguin, 2021)
Charlotte Grant, New College for the Humanities
- Co-editor of Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700-1830 (Cambridge, 2000)
Sylvana Tomaselli, University of Cambridge
- Author of Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics (Princeton, 2021)
Chair: Elizabeth Eger, King’s College London.
Suggested Reading:
Sylvana Tomaselli, ‘The most public sphere of all: the family’, in Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700-1830, eds. Eger, Grant, O’Gallchoir, and Warbuton (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 239- 256. (available to read online here).
Extracts from Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men and Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).
NB. Please be reassured that this reading is optional and the speakers will all give talks that do not assume any prior knowledge or reading.